Chapter 11 Some Things Are Worth It.

2000 Santa Cruz

"Val you Bosnian, How's life" Smiled Niko as his friend walked into the demon part of the Kruz Kord.

"Good Good. Vodka, Russian" He smiled sitting down. "You been back to the hellmouth lately" He asked as a bottle was placed in front of him.

"I've been busy, but I heard Toth was there along with Dracula and she beat them both" Niko laughed as they both took a shot of Vodka.

"Apparently a vamp touched her sister, you took a shine to her sister didn't you." Trepkos laughed As they shotted back another one.

"Shut up. I would never touch her, actually I wouldn't mind siring her, but anyway the slayer would kill the vamp before you had even heard the vamp had touched Dawn" Niko said matter of factly as they shotted more back.

"But you know her name" Trepkos caught the slip even though they were taking another one back.

"Shut up…..Darla" Niko didn't drink he just stared straight at the blonde Vampire who walked in.

"Angels sire" Val whispered. "My back teeth are drowning" He said as he left to go to the toilet as Darla made her way over to Niko.

"The Kruz Kord how….cute" She half smiled.

"Darla" He nodded. "Can I get you anything" he asked

"yep" She nodded to the store cupboard.

""

"So are you going to kill me now" Niko smirked as she closed the door to a medium size store cupboard. "Last I heard you was dust"

"I had Lindsey McDonald track you down and when I first came back to life, I planned on killing a traitor but I'm human and my sense of unwavering loyalty is gone" She smiled as she studied the shelved item's. "So I'm here for an ally."

""

"So can I crash here for a few days, before I move on to L.A." Harmony smiled to Niko.

"I say keep her as your attraction, she's mighty fine I'll pay you." Trepkos said drunkenly

"Val she's my childe" He had a disturbed look on his face.

"Kill her, the slayer should of" Darla hissed entering from the back.

"she's my childe" Niko's look was even more disturbed.

"I thought you sent Mort down to protect Harmony yet she gets him killed" Val slurred out.

"But that…tut" Harmony looked at the floor like a disobedient child being scolded.

"So why did the slayer try to kill you, threaten her boyfriend?" Darla reminisced about Angel.

"Her Sister." Niko said looking at Harmony disappointedly.

"What?" Darla said stopping in her tracks.

"Her Sister, you know female sibling" Val laughed.

"The slayer doesn't have a sister." She ran off out the door.

"Eeerr, yeah she does" Harmony said in her immature way.

2000 L.A.

"Niko!….Niko!…Damn you Russian Prick come here" some one screamed up stairs at Niko's L.A. Condo.

"What!" Niko roared as he came down in a towel covering his lower half revealing that he has a muscular build. "You?" He sighed turning to go upstairs.

"Hi, I'm Lindsey McDonald your Niko right" His attitude came totally different.

"I know who you are, your colleague Lilah Morgan took my girlfriend Eve away" Niko just stared at the man. "What do you want?"

"Eve huh, I'll look into her" Lindesy tried to be nice. "Okay here's the deal, Darla is carrying on her human life, Dying! I can't let that happen. So I thought maybe a if she went back to a vampire life would be grand, but I don't want any scum I want the Masters blood line in her again, I want you." Lindsey became emotional.

"No" Niko growled looking into the mans eyes. "I'll tell you what" He picked up a piece of paper. "Go to Karitos, ask for Val Trepkos." He wrote on the paper. "I told him to watch a relative of mine, Drusilla, While she's in California she shouldn't be to hard to find now, She'll do it" He handed the paper over.

2000 L.A

"Niko!….Niko!" came a manly voice from his L.A. condo.

"What now!" Niko roared as a half naked girl out screaming followed by a morphed Niko. "Angel?" Niko was tossed against the wall.

"Where's Darla and Dru?" Angel made a quiet threat.

"I should ask you, being as you helped kill Holland Manners. Angelus" Niko shoved Angel off. "Wait, the Kord is not exactly booming so I have to go back soon and I can't risk Darla and Dru leeching off me so, word is that there is a big meet tonight at a warehouse for all major badass', I'll write the address." Niko began.

"No, get dressed, get your crappy Russian sword your coming with me, oh and I need some petrol for what I have in mind" Angel smiled turning away.

2001 Santa Cruz

"Good to be home" Niko smiled as he put his sword on a hook and pulled out a file ready to balance the books for the new year but he smelt someone. "sorry Angel we're closed for new year" Smiled Niko until a blue demon fell to the floor "He's a good security guard, next time don't sneak up on him and it would be a close fight." Niko went back to the books. "Oh yeah and no Darla hasn't come here."

"I'm not here for her but I know Dru came and you sent her to Sunnydale where Spike is." Angel growled.

"Well you didn't even pay me for helping with them demons at the warehouse and all she wanted was information so yeah I did." Niko stood eye to eye with him.

"Him" Angel pointed to the floor.

"What?" Niko looked confused.

"I want a demon to fool Wolfram and Hart, for a passtime" Angel smiled

"Boone?" Niko still confused.

"Look there's a pay off of a million if he gets it right and that would help with the not booming." Angel continued.

"Fine"

2001 Santa Cruz

"Eve?" Niko said as he stopped his conversation with Trepkos.

"You smell the wench which left you for her work." Trepkos got excited "kill her or sleep with her I don't mind" he smiled

"I'm done with her, it was just lust" Niko assured Val who left as Eve followed by Lindsey appeared.

"Niko, no time I need your help with Lindsey." Eve said hurriedly.

"Lindsey, first Darla then Eve, you cad" Niko smiled at Lindsey and noted the serious on the faces. "What do you need."

"To hide, Lindsey from the senior partners" Eve looked pleadingly at Niko.

"Well a few years ago, I was…. In Rome and a high level demon" Niko remembered the event with the Immortal even though he preferred not to. "Used a magic charm against high entities from seeing two of his charges, I looked into it after since I was against the heat and came up with certain glyphs that hid people." He led the couple back towards his basement, down the stone steps past the cages and chain opened a heavy metal door and what looked to be an office. "I kept them just in case the demon came after me" He smiled looking through the filing cabinet to get apiece of paper and handed it to Lindsey. "Behave, and if you need anything call me" He let them leave through the sewers just in case they were spotted.

2001 Sunnydale

"Spike"

"Niko" The vampires greeted each other in willies at the bar.

"So you gave into love for a human" The Russian smiled

"Bloody well Shut it" Spike whined as demons started to recognised Spike. "Does everyone know about me and the slayer?" Spike said drinking his beer as Niko ordered a white Russian.

"Well, Angel told me" Niko said taking a swig.

"Angel, Bleeding heck, what's in that" Spike asked deciding he needs something stronger.

"Yeah Angel, he came to Joyce's funeral met Buffy who told him, Kahlua, Vodka and cream" Niko licked his lips.

"So, what brings you down here?" Spike finished his beer

"well Harmony went to L.A. got tossed out by Angel so she came back to me, I've left her in charge with my friend of my bar." Niko replied ordering two more white Russians.

"You as dumb as she is if you did that" Spike laughed as Niko finished off his drink as the two more came.

"But I sent Dru down here and she didn't come back, so Darla has gone to find her. I went to see her off at the border of Mexico and thought I would see good old Sunnydale." Niko replied as they both downed there drinks.

"You sick of the spectators too" Spike nodded to the crowd of demons behind him.

"Want to help" Spike asked as Niko took out his sword.

"Hombre Asesino" Niko nodded as the vampires charged against the demons.

""

"Nice wheels" A bloody Spike sang to Niko who walked over to an R.V.

"Well I needed to transport a couple of demons and this is all I could get." Niko replied, Opening the door. "If you want anything just call me" Niko smiled and handed Spike a card.

"The Doctor, you bleeding Poofter" He laughed and walked away.

""

When he got home a scared looking Buffy was in his crypt. "Luv, what's wrong?" Spike asked.

"I can't beat Glory" She sobbed.

"You can pet, you just need a plan." Spike comforted her.

"I got one, I need you to get a big car to fit Me, Dawn, You, Willow, Tara, Xander and Giles and we run. They need Dawn at a certain time right, well let's not give them that time." Buffy looked Spike dead in the eye. "We might need Riley and his army goons, because the Knights of Byzantium are after Dawn as well." Buffy began to walk away.

"What do you want a limo, and we don't need captain cardboard we need ….a distraction" The vampire had a plan he picked up 'The Doctors' card and ran to the payphone.

"Niko I'll take the R.V. and your demons" Spike said down the receiver.

2001 Exit to Sunnydale

"I smell like a fat burning factory" Niko whined to Spike in the R.V. They turned to see two Mohra demons.

"Well you are in three tubes and five sprays of factor hundred sun cream, how'd you know it will work." Spike laughed "They can help but they'll die." Spike turned serious.

"No, if you hit the Gem, they die if you don't they'll come back stronger" Niko smiled. "I got hold of some super juice" He showed spike a little bottle "Just in case, I don't make it I need them to slow those humans down long enough for you and Dawn to go" Niko looked distant.

"Yeah I better be going." Spike said as the three evil demons stepped out prepared to help good, so the realities don't bleed into one another.

Thirty minutes later Niko's R.V. drives past and a mile behind them is a battalion of horse mounted Knights.

"Even with the juice we can't stop them, they'll figure it is our gem" One Demon cried in his cackle like voice as Niko began to sweat in the sun as his sun cream was running down his face.

"Do you want the world to end or do you want to rule it, scum." The Second replied. "we are here to slow it down not stop it."

"I do my brother, but surely, nothing merits death at hands of god wielding humans?" the first one shot back as the demons drew their various blades and Niko drew his trusty Kindjar sword.

"Some things are worth it" Niko whispered as the Knights tried to mow over their would be victims but unknowing in the skill that had let these three live this long, The Mohra demons were decapitated in seconds and Niko was Skewered on a spear, the demons grew on super juice and fought back even harder, but Niko ended up killing a knight, taking his horse and riding back to Sunnydale "hope that helps Dawn" he said as he saw one demon grow and the other blow up as a knight hit his gem.